The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-11-05
NEMESIS.


10 roost. No matter how sceptical q
man may be, II he is well read in hts
tory he must admit that people al.
ways suffer for their sins against justice
and right. Liberty aud freedom avenge
Themselves for every wrong more
surely than did the goddesses of Olym.
pus.
When the people commit or even
permit wrong, the punishment is
sure and heavy.
Let us illustrate.
The fundamental principle Of Dsmoc-
racy is that the people rule. This
principle was sinned against when the
law was passed allowing the Governor
to appoint police jurors. No one will
deny that this law is damnable sin
against Democracy. But it was said
to be necessary in order to prevent ne
gro parishes from electing negro jurors
and to control these negro parishes, the
people of the white parishes, In an ex-
cess Of zeal and generosity, gave w
their right to elect their local iegisla.
tors. Mark the sequel! These gener-
Gus patriots thought, of course, the
Governor would appoint jurors accept
able to the majority of the white men
both in negro and In white parishes.
Indeed, they might be excusable If
they had thought that the Governor
would be in honor bound to appoint
Jurors, at least In white parishes, &C.
cordiDg TO the wishes OF the majority
But, instead Of this, Nemesis decreed
that the Governor should assume to
disregard the wishes Of the majority
and make his will supreme In both ne
gro parishes and white parishes and
trample the will of the majority into
the dust. Not only this-but, adding
insult to injury, the Governor, and his
organs slap the majority Ia the face
and assert that he must, under the law,
consult, not the wishes Of the people,
but his own judgment and wish in
these appointments and that the only
question Is whether his appointments
are good, not whether they suit the
people. In other words, the position
is boldly proclaimed that the Governor
is justified in appointing man against
the expressed wish Of every DEM
ocrat in parish, if that nan
prove to be good officer. Aud this
defiance and scorn of the poor peoples
will ts the Just punishment for their
deser,ion Of free Institutions when they
placed the unhallowed power of ap-
poin,ment in the Governors hands.
Again, from imagined necessity and
stress of political weather, the people
enacted barbarous election law which
put it in the power OF some parishes TO
count just as many votes as they please
and Nemesis has decreed that these
marvellous "counts" shall be used in
nominating conventions to over,urn
the will of the very men who enacted
the law!
Again, after declaring that the lsadi-
Gals should no longer use the negroes
to govern this State, the people per-
mitted negroes TO be used by Democrats
for the same nefarious purpose-aud
Nemesis decreed that radical negro
legislators should have voice in a
Democratic caucus! O what horrible
punishment was that! When will
men learn that they cannot do wrong
with impunity? Even while we write
the work of Nemesis is going on.
Against all our poor pleading, the Nc
Emery men of Ouachita persist in their
determination to rule the parish by ne
gro votes; and 10 /! from the parish of
Richland comes piteous wall from
the McEneryites that the negroes are
being "drsgged into politics by the
Nichols men," The Richland Beacon
of last week was one long protest
against voting negroes at Democratic
primaries or conventions. McEuery
deserves to lose every parish in the
State because he and his friends have
sacrificed the liberties of Ouachita to
negro Democracy! But this is not the
worst punishment that will follow the
disregard of the TELEGRAPH's appeal.
Before this campaign is over, you will
witness the most disgraceful struggle
for moo ro yOtes and OF i'll ,nDro s};oura 20.